Belgrade kangaroo killed in hit-and-run

Serbian police were alerted to the escaped ‘roo, but arrived to find it dead, the apparent victim of a traffic accident.

“Unfortunately, there was nothing we could do,” shrugged senior officer Zeljko Perosevic.

Later that day, bewildered authorities were summoned to Belgrade zoo to investigate the death of yet another kangaroo. An intruder had evidently scaled the wall of the marsupials’ enclosure, slain the mother and made off with the joey.

The deaths come a year after a female kangaroo took fright at an emu, dropped her infant and refused it any further access to her pouch. It is not known whether it was the same macropods who perished in this year’s incident.